In 328 BC, Rome founded the colony of Fregellae in southern Latium (Italy), at a strategic crossroads of roads and rivers.

In 1796, while scampering through fields behind his house in Ribchester, England, a young boy stumbled upon a hoard of over 30 metal artifacts in a hollow. The most unique and impressive item in the ...

Italy is modernizing its rail transportation infrastructure. Key in this strategy is a transformation of station mapping with ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

An academic article published in 2025 in the prestigious journal Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne by researcher Jorge Barbero Barroso, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, sheds a fascinating and ...

A public meeting was hosted at City Hall Wednesday evening to show off the preferred conceptual plan, designed by MRB Group ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being brought ...

ROME (AP) — Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era. Commuters and tourists ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging for the stations. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo, who has ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one of Rome’s earliest monumental civic structures. Its central placement hints ...